Why survival is enough

Journal of Value Inquiry

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 433-449

  Williams, Anthony Marc ^a  

^a Department of Teacher Education and Department of Sociology and Anthropology   (United States)

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EID: 57049114869     PISSN: 00225363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10790-008-9133-9     Document Type: Article

References (43)

1. John Rawls, "The Independence of Moral Theory," in Samuel Freeman, ed., Collected Papers (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1999).
2. Ibid., p. 296.
3. See John Rawls, A Theory of Justice (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1971), pp. 22-29.
4. See Stephen Darwall, "Respect and the Second Person Standpoint," Presidential Address, Central Division of the American Philosophical Association, in Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association 78, no. 2, 2004, p. 43-44;
5. see also Thomas E. Hill, Jr., "Respect for Persons," in E. Craig, ed., Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, (London: Routledge, 1998).
6. See John Rawls, A Theory of Justice, pp. 26-29.
7. See Derek Parfit, "Personal Identity," in John Perry, ed., Personal Identity, (Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1975).
8. Ibid., pp. 199-200.
9. Derek Parfit, Reasons and Persons (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1984), p. 322.
10. Derek Parfit, "Personal Identity," p. 200.
11. See David Wiggins, Identity and Spacio-Temporal Continuity (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1967), p. 50;
12. see also Sydney Shoemaker, Self-Knowledge and SelfIdentity (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell, University Press, 1964), p. 22.
13. See Douglass Ehring, "Fission, Fusion and the Parfit Revolution," Philosophical Studies 94 (1999).
14. Tamar Gendler, "Personal Identity and Thought-Experiments," The Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 52, No. 206. (2002), p. 34.
15. Thomas Magnell, "On Parfit's 'Personal Identity'," in Symposia: Readings in Philosophy, Ohio University Department of Philosophy, ed., (Boston: Person Publishing, 2001), p. 21.
16. See Joseph Butler, "Of Personal Identity," in Perry, op. cit., p. 100.
17. Derek Parfit, Reasons and Persons, p. 207.
18. See Derek Parfit, "Personal Identity," pp. 211 & 214;
19. see also, Derek Parfit, Reasons and Persons, p. 215.
20. Derek Parfit, "Personal Identity," p. 214.
21. See ibid., p. 219.
22. Ibid.
23. See John Rawls, A Theory of Justice, p. 27;
24. see also, Derek Parfit, Reasons and Persons, p. 331.
25. Ibid., p. 26.
26. Ibid., p. 27.
27. Ibid., p. 29.
28. Derek Parfit, Reasons and Persons, p. 337.
29. Christine M. Korsgaard, "Personal identity and the unity of agency: A Kantian response to Parfit", in Christine M. Korsgaard, ed., Creating the Kingdom of Ends (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996), p. 384.
30. See ibid., pp. 380-386.
31. See David Gauthier, Practical Reasoning (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1962), p. 126.
32. See Derek Parfit, Reasons and Persons, pp. 332-334.
33. See ibid., p. 338.
34. Ibid., p. 337.
35. See ibid., p. 343.
36. See ibid., p. 335.
37. See ibid., p. 334.
38. Ibid., p. 341.
39. Ibid., p. 325.
40. Ibid., p. 326.
41. Ibid.
42. Ibid.
43. Special thanks are due to Owen Flanagan, David Wong, Robert Brandon, Alex Rosenberg, and Avram Hiller, for their helpful comments on the earliest drafts. Others who have provided priceless remarks include faculty at the Claremont Consortium, especially Paul Hurley, Amy Kind, and Brian Keeley. Many thanks are also due to Larry Krasnoff, Todd Grantham, Hugh Wilder, Jennifer Baker, Richard Nunan, Thomas Magnell, and an anonymous referee for the Journal of Value Inquiry for valuable comments on an earlier draft.